Chapter 682: Chapter 649: Entering the Later Stages of Running
In the eastern part of the competition venue, as the system prompts kept popping up, the players’ heads were filled with question marks, and they still didn’t know what had happened.
—The meteorite fell into the ocean, with all the impact absorbed by the water and then transformed into a tsunami. As a result, the shake was minimal, and it didn’t reach the eastern part of the battlefield.
The players in the east didn’t feel the earthquake, so they had no idea how powerful the meteorite was.
“Tsunami,” they really couldn’t think of such a thing, even if they racked their brains.
However, this wasn’t a tsunami caused by an underwater earthquake. So, its peak was only one wave, which progressively weakened as it moved east and quickly receded.
One kilometer from the coastline, two large cargo ships were stranded on the wreckage of a highway.
The bow of one of the cargo ships had even smashed into the cabin of the other ship.
“Ugh~~Ugh~~Ugh!!”
In the ship cabin with a large hole, a Daxia player struggled to vomit, propped up his body, climbed out of the hole along the slanted floor, and saw the sunlight again.
Feeling grateful to be alive after the disaster, the sunlight seemed incredibly beautiful.
He couldn’t help but spread his arms, basking in the sunlight while exclaiming from the bottom of his heart: “Praise the sun!”
Behind him, one by one, players struggled to regain their composure, crawled out of the cabin, and left the cargo ship.
Meanwhile, in the other cargo ship, more players were coming out one after another, stepping on the ground again.
After a summary, they found that, as expected, the losses were heavy.
Now, there were only 188 remaining players here. In addition to the 64 recon soldiers scattered outside and the remaining 77 people searching for the Nuclear Bomb Controller, they were the only Daxia players left.
Super Tomato’s cargo ship, along with the three Italian artillery, was completely wiped out.
All the players who stayed at the seaport were wiped out too.
The weapons and equipment were also severely damaged.
For Daxia players, the race instantly entered a hellish mode, and the championship seemed very elusive.
Even many audiences in the live broadcast room felt that the game had entered the “garbage time” in advance—
The strongest T1 War Zone had two eliminated, and one heavily damaged.
After T2 War Zone, the strongest three (Germany, Izumo, Ottoman Republic) were eliminated. The remaining three (Australia, Annan, Italy) had relatively weak authority, and now they were also heavily damaged.
What’s left to watch?
Chickens fighting in T3 War Zone?
Perhaps many viewers thought it’s not bad, as there will be more fun.
But those who valued the strength wouldn’t accept it.
The remaining Daxia players in the competition venue wouldn’t accept it either. Although they were in a bad situation now, they were not willing to give up easily.
Especially when their original strongest opponents had been bizarrely eliminated.
—Even without this accident, in a head-on confrontation with Russian and German players, the loss might not be less than now.
However, if they could control the timing themselves, the final battle would surely happen at the end of the game, not like now, where they still have to face so many opponents.
“Brothers, how can we deal with this headwind?” A Daxia player named [Milky Snow] checked his guns and hand grenades while asking in the faction channel.
Around the cargo ship, the surviving Daxia players, after recovering their composure, began to sort out their weapons.
Some people who lost their weapons had to go back to the ship cabin and search for weapons again.
“Maybe it’s time to adopt the human wave tactic?” Someone responded in the channel.
“Really? Is that it?”
“Not necessarily, right? We gather together, and there are more than 300 people after all. Nothing else, it shouldn’t be hard to fight against Italy, right? Can’t we just go and smash their pot first?”
“But if we gather together, we will lose the battlefield vision. Without a full map, I don’t feel secure…”
Daxia players joined the discussion.
It was this discussion that made the audience puzzled—
“Human wave tactics”?
With only so few people left, can they still play human wave tactics?
Soon, after voting to save time, the Daxia players concluded, and the audience finally understood the meaning of “human wave tactics”—
The Daxia players said their goodbyes to each other, and then scattered in all directions right there.
“Good grief, does human wave tactics mean to blend into the crowd?”
“So even the name of the tactic is misleading? Who are they trying to prevent?”
“All I can say is: genius!”
…
That’s right, the Daxia players dispersed on the spot, scattering throughout the entire battlefield.
From now on, it was all about individual performance. Whether they wanted to find a place to lay low, take advantage of the chaos, snipe from a distance, or work together in small groups, it was up to them to decide.
They wouldn’t regroup until only three factions were left.
This, of course, was not the best strategy, but after witnessing the earth-shattering scene earlier, they could not bear to face a similar fate again.
By spreading out, they could at least avoid being wiped out in one fell swoop.
The rest would be up to skill and luck!
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Because of the unexpected tsunami, the competition jumped past its mid-stage and directly entered the late stage.
Now in the field, the Daxia players spread out and started to wreak havoc all over the map.
After finishing their food, the Italian players regrouped, planning to return to where they were bombed before and see if they could recover some of their lost artillery.
The battle between the British and Indian players did not cease after the temporary interruption from the falling meteorite. Instead, it intensified even more.
Both sides were fighting with all their might.
The current conflict truly had the feel of a “father-son match.”
No one wanted to lose!
The underground cavern of the Annan players was now completely flooded with water.
Even crazier, they found out that the water was radioactive!
This forced them to leave the cavern and search for a new position.
T2 War Zone’s last survivor was Australia.
However, there wasn’t much to say about the Australian players. Their performance showed that they simply weren’t well suited for large-scale battles.
After the start of the competition, they met several opponents and lost each match. As a result, half of their players were eliminated, and they failed to even showcase the strength of being in fourth place in the T2 War Zone.
At least Italy chased Izumo for an entire round!
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Oh, right, there was also a nuclear bomb earlier.
That bomb accurately landed in the north-eastern area of the map, where there was a desert. There was only one oasis player’s position, and the bomb even avoided it.
It perfectly executed the intention of “shrinking the zone.”
The problem was, this area hid a group of real “survival masters.”
The Finnish players chose the oasis as their base but left after the match started, hiding at the edge of the desert.
They realized a loophole before the competition: in reality, people instinctively believed that it was hard to survive in a desert.
However, in the virtual world, most negative conditions were shielded.
No hunger, no thirst, and no sunburn.
It was entirely feasible to hide in the desert!
As long as they hid well, they had an excellent chance of avoiding all fights during the early and mid stages of the competition and directly advancing to the late stage.
As expected, so far during the competition, not a single country found and attacked them.
Even Daxia’s elusive reconnaissance soldiers left the oasis readily without considering the possibility of searching deeper into the desert.
This allowed the Finnish players to pass the competition time without firing a single shot.
That is, until a nuclear bomb dropped on their heads, taking them out in an instant…
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Now, across the entire [Peak War] battlefield, the faction that had the least damage and still had over 800 players surviving – interestingly enough – was from a relatively unknown country that often went overlooked in reality: Liechtenstein.
With a population of over 39,000, the virtual population was just over 2,000.
Yet they managed to gather 1,000 players to represent their country in the [Peak War], and now they’ve become the largest surviving faction!
In the Cloud Dream Official Live Room, there were initially only around 500 viewers with Liechtenstein IP addresses.
However, after the tsunami wiped out several strong teams and Liechtenstein’s survival numbers jumped to the top of the leaderboard, the number of viewers from the tiny nation suddenly increased, nearly quadrupling in the blink of an eye and still rising!
They saw the hope of winning the championship for the first time-
Claiming victory in a competition with 36 countries participating and nearly the equivalent of their total population!
If successful, it would definitely go down in history!